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Foxhill Primary Year 3 Drummers Creat Latin Composition
Posted: 11/03/15
The year 3 drummers at Foxhill Primary School began to create a great Latin style drum piece last week. Have a listen to the intricate rhythms and the great effect of the Cowbells.
Read more »Beni working on the Samba Drum Piece
Posted: 04/03/15
Today Beni achieved some great work on his Samba piece. We were working on a tight introduction followed by two variants of the Samba groove. In terms of fills listen to his semi quaver triplets combined with regular semi quavers.
Read more »Reece starts work on his first Drum Exam
Posted: 24/02/15
Yesterday Reece, in Year 3, began work on his first Rock School drum exam. He learnt a full piece in one lesson and by the end of the lesson was able to play the piece with the backing track!
Read more »Summer Term Lesson Dates and Information
Posted: 24/02/15
Summer term lesson dates and information has now been sent out with summer term invoices. Payment for Summer term lessons is due Friday 13 March. All details can also be viewed by visiting ‘Parents Section/ Information for Parents/ What’s on at my Child’s School/ type in the name if the school.
Read more »Beni Working on Samba Styles
Posted: 11/02/15
As part of his warm up routines this term Beni and I are working on Samba styles. This will form part of a massive Drum kit ensemble piece for the summer concert at Dixons Music Primary where we will feature 7 students in Drum kit playing a Samba backing with the younger students from DMP adding some Samba rhythms.
Read more »Reece and Jack Jamming Together Again
Posted: 04/02/15
As we are tracking Reece in Year 3 and Jack in Year 9 in their work together have a look at the video attached. Here the guys are taking a simple 16ths riffs and using a combination of double and syncopated Bass Drum patterns to create interest. Reece is working on developing Parradiddles in his grooves whilst Jack is perfecting […]
Read more »Ilkley Students Preparing for Graded Exams
Posted: 28/01/15
It’s the time now that students are preparing for their Easter and Summer session graded exams. We have many students in Ilkley preparing for a range of exams grades 1 to 8 with several Music examination providers. We will be tracking students until the summer now so we can show the progress they are making in their exam work. Some […]
Read more »Foxhill Year 3 Drummers
Posted: 27/01/15
It was another great rehearsal yesterday with the Year 3 Foxhill drummers. They have been learning how to play 16th beats. Then we extended this learning by looking at how to incorporate Parradiddles in a 16th beat pattern. To take this even further I got some students to use the Toms for half bar fills and for the ends if […]
Read more »Jack and Reece are working on Latin Drumming
Posted: 20/01/15
One of the most complex styles to drum is Latin. The rhythms are very tight but a laid back feel is needed and that combination is never easy. Add to this that characteristic double Bass Drum pattern at a fast tempo and you have to be a great drummer to achieve precision. Some Drum tutors avoid Latin styles until students […]
Read more »Year 1 Drumming at Dixons Music Primary
Posted: 18/01/15
One of our gifted and talented students at Dixons Music Primary made outstanding progress on Friday in his Drum lesson with Mr Hill. He has been working on playing Grooves with a selection of Fills in tempo. Typically we might expect a Year 1 student to compose Fills using crotchets or quavers but this student excelled in understanding the concepts […]
Read more »Tracking a Year 3 Drummer
Posted: 13/01/15
We are tracking one of our very gifted Year 3 drummers this term. This student has been learning Drums for 15 months now and is making remarkable progress. At Learn to Rock we run a Peer Mentoring scheme where invite older students work with younger students. This type of work has many benefits to the learning of the younger student […]
Read more »Drum Work Reece
Posted: 04/01/15
I am taking Reece to the next level of his Drum playing. Here he is for the first time playing Smooth by Santana. Watch this space over the next few weeks as we work in progressively more difficult Grooves and Fills for this song.
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